The Washington Post reported on Monday that there has been an ongoing management dispute between Orestes Fintiklis, the majority owner of the Trump International Hotel in Panama, and the Trump Organization, which was hired to run the hotel years before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. Fintiklis wants to fire the Trump Organization from its management role, accusing the organization of causing the hotel's declining revenue through supposedly harming its image and managing it ineffectively.

As the Post described, the announcement of an official investigation not only brings complications for the Trump Organization but also potentially for the president himself. Although Trump passed day-to-day oversight of the Trump Organization to his sons when he became president, the president still technically owns his businesses and can access business funds whenever he desires. Thus, Monday's announcement of an investigation into the Trump Organization by Panamanian authorities essentially means that a foreign entity is investigating the president's private business.

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The investigation could place the president in an uncomfortable situation. As Jordan Libowitz, a representative of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, described to the Washington Post,

The Associated Press (as published by the Los Angeles Times) also described the concerns of some about the announcement of the investigation and its possible implications. As the outlet put it, "The involvement of a Panamanian government ministry adds a new wrinkle to the dispute. The government's statement says it will request information from foreign entities and governments, 'should they be needed' for its investigation."

Thus far, the White House has not commented on the announcement of the Panamanian investigation or on the ongoing dispute between Fintiklis and the organization. However, the Trump Organization did issue a statement decrying Fintiklis' actions on Monday.

It now appears as though Mr. Fintiklis has either lost patience with the pace of the proceedings which he commenced or simply lacks the financial backing he once claimed he had ... Mr. Fintiklis recently decided to take matters into his own hands and try and physically — and forcibly — remove Trump from the Hotel as manager.